WSC 2023 | FRONTIER: pre-hospital administration of nerinetide for acute ischemic stroke

Michael D. Hill, MD, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, speaks on results from the FRONTIER (NCT02315443) trial, run alongside ESCAPE-NEXT (NCT04462536), which assessed the efficacy of nerinetide in improving acute ischemic stroke outcomes when administered in a pre-hospital setting. Nerinetide is a neuroprotective molecule that interacts with postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD-95) to alleviate neuronal damage during stroke. Patients with suspected ischemic stroke were administered nerinetide or control in the ambulance, before receiving routine reperfusion treatment at the hospital. Nerinetide was assessed as having a large treatment effect when administered within 60 minutes of symptom onset. Importantly, patients who did not go on to receive an ischemic stroke diagnosis had no effect of taking nerinetide, establishing a negative control. These findings are being used to inform a future trial which will assess the benefit of nerinetide, if given within a 3-hour time window, on the outcome of reperfusion therapy in acute ischemic stroke patients. This interview took place at the World Stroke Congress (WSC) 2023 in Toronto, Canada.

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